Potter and Potter Auctions: Online Only Fine Books Sale, 1228, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894-1961). | The Thin Man. |
New York | 1934 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 177 | HEMINGWAY, Ernest. | A Farewell to Arms. |
New York | 1929 | USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,040.00 |
| 178 | HEMINGWAY, Ernest. | Men Without Women. |
New York | 1927 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 540.00 |
| 179 | LEWIS, Sinclair. | Main Street. The Story of Carol Kennicott. |
New York | 1920 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 180 | MAUGHAM, W. | Somerset. The Razor's Edge. |
Garden City | 1944 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 181 | O'NEILL, Eugene. | The Iceman Cometh. |
New York | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 182 | [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. | A Wonder Book. |
New York | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 840.00 | |
| 183 | [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator] MILTON, John. | Comus. |
New York | London | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 184 | RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. | The Yearling. |
New York | 1938 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 185 | STEINBECK, John. | Grapes of Wrath. |
New York | 1939 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,320.00 |
| 186 | STEINBECK, John. | Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. |
New York | USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,140.00 | |
| 187 | TRAVEN, B. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. |
New York | 1935 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 188 | FLEMING, Ian. | "Voodoo Spy Novel: 'Live and Let Die'" Appearing in Bluebook Magazine, Vol. 99, No. 1. |
Dayton OH | 1954-05-01 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 189 | FLYNN, Gillian. | Trio of Signed First Trade Editions. |
V.p. | ca.21st century | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 190 | FOLLETT, Ken. | Pillars of the Earth. |
New York | 1989 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 191 | FORD, Gerald R. | A Time to Heal. The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. |
Norwalk CT | 1987 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 192 | FORSTER, John. | The Life of Charles Dickens. |
London | 1872 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 193 | DE RETZ, Cardinal (Jean Francois Paul de Gonde). | Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz... |
London | 1723 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 270.00 |
| 194 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). | Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator. In Two Volumes. |
London | 1793 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
| 195 | [FRANKLIN, Benjamin, subject] | URBAN, Sylvanus (pseudonym of CAVE, Edward). The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXC. Volume LX. Part the First [-Second] |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 | ||
| 196 | GARCIA-MARQUEZ, Gabriel. | The General in His Labyrinth. |
New York | 1990 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 197 | GARCIA-MARQUEZ, Gabriel. | Love in the Time of Cholera. |
New York | 1988 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 |
| 198 | WEBSTER, Dr. John W. | A Description of the Island of St. Michael, Comprising an Account of Its Geological Structure... |
Boston | 1821 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 199 | GIBRAN, Kahlil. | Twenty Drawings. |
New York | 1919 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 200 | HARRIS, Joseph. | The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery... |
London | 1768 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
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26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
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Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
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25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
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25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.